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 Re: The Cleveland Orchestra musicians speak out!
Author: Ed Palanker 
Date:   2010-01-24 20:40

I feel I have to answer Oldclarinetguy. I can't speak for the orchestra in your town but that's not exactly true in many other orchestra in the USA. Speaking for my orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, first off most of us do not come to concerts in our tux's, most change in our locker rooms. We have had a program for several years now, since the recession began, of offering $25 tickets for most of our concerts. Patrons can mix and match programs to basically make up their own set of concerts anywhere from 4- 18 concerts. We do 6 pops programs each year, besides two weeks of Christmas concert specials. We do several side by side concerts with students from different counties in MD that are willing to participate as well as about a dozen other youth concerts.
This year we are doing a series called "Rusty Musician" rehearsals and concerts. Inviting players that wish to sit in with our musicians for a rehearsal and brief concert, for a fee of course. We have applied for, and received a grant to have a one week training session in the spring to invite interested students and graduates to play side by side rehearsals and concerts, have sectionals, be coached in chamber music and have private lessons if requested with members of our orchestra. We co sponsors a program at a local inner city public elementary school called Orchkids that the students receive instruments and lessons as well as other musical and non musical activities such as after school tutoring and attending open rehearsals, which we do for others as well. We also have a program called "College Nights" which we invite local college students to attend certain programs during the year at large discounts and have a get together after those concert to mingle with any of the musicians that wish to attend. We even have a program called Music Matter where we speak to patrons before and after many of our concerts to encourage them to help support the orchestra. Many musicians have even volunteer their time to perform at local shopping centers and such with a music matters table set up to try to attract people to attend and support our orchestra concerts. At Christmas we have a hugh toy drive and bring car loads of toys to a local hospital that cares for young children and musicians take the toys in performing Christmas music for the kids as they distribute the toys. So please do not paint all orchestra's and their players with the same brush stroke. We here in Baltimore are and have been trying all kinds of things to bring symphony music to the public. And as I said before, we've taken a big hit. ESP
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